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10 Things I Would Do If I Were Twenty-One. Podcast #307: Make Your Bed, Change the World. Improve Your Decision Making By Knowing Yourself Better. The Perfect Personality Trait For Intelligent People. The most fundamentally important personality trait for a thoughtful person of any political hue.

Being aware you could be wrong is a fundamentally important personality trait, new research reveals. People who are intellectually humble are better able to assess evidence and they also tend to stick to their principles, once established. In other words, the humble show more integrity. Professor Mark Leary, the study’s lead author, said: “If you think about what’s been wrong in Washington for a long time, it’s a whole lot of people who are very intellectually arrogant about the positions they have, on both sides of the aisle.But even in interpersonal relationships, the minor squabbles we have with our friends, lovers and coworkers are often about relatively trivial things where we are convinced that our view of the world is correct and their view is wrong.”

The research also revealed that there was no difference in intellectual humility between liberals and conservatives. Professor continued:
Lessons from Charlie Munger: Destroy Your Previous Ideas & Reexamine Your Convictions. Reexamine your deep-rooted ideas Here is one of the many nuggets of wisdom from the 2016 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting.

At the 4:39:39 mark in the meeting’s webcast by Yahoo! Finance, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger discuss an effective strategy for persuasion and argumentation: Charlie Munger: We try and avoid the worst anchoring effect which is always your previous conclusion.
[Effective Arguments] Explain Your Opponent’s Perspective. “The man who can hold forth on every matter under debate in two contradictory ways of pleading, or can argue for and against every proposition that can be laid down – such a man is the true, the complete, and the only orator.” – Cicero “If you can’t imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you just don’t understand it yet.” – Anthony Weston, ‘Rulebook for Arguments’ Explaining the Other Side of the Argument.

How to Find Direction Using the Sun and Stars. 22 Questions to Reignite Love. Occasionally, our relationships need to get re-started.

We love one another but a lot has accumulated that we haven’t properly dealt with. Certain things haven’t been said, resentments may have built up, playfulness has been neglected and there is a lot we should – but haven’t found the words – to express. So we’ve drawn up a set of some of the most important questions that a couple might discuss together in order to reopen channels of feeling and communication. The questions – and the supporting micro-essays – invite candour, confession and radical openness.

A perfect visual meditation for when you can't listen to audio, or just need a quick second to refocus. Use this image to help you keep time! :)
How to Reduce Stress by Breathing Like the Navy SEALs. These are stressful, uncertain times.

How are we supposed to be calm and productive workers amid all this chaos? There is one simple way to cage the monkey on your back we call stress, and it can be done anytime, anywhere. It’s called box breathing — a time-honored stress-reducing technique endorsed by none other than the U.S. Navy SEALs. For them, it’s a way to stay calm and focused — and, therefore, alive — before and after intense combat.
Future - The secret to living a meaningful life. Brian Little, one of the world’s leading experts on personality psychology, is renowned as a public speaker.

If you watch his recent TED talk on personality, as millions of others have, you will see an engaging and witty orator holding his audience’s attention with aplomb. You’d probably conclude that Little is an extravert: he’s not only good at what he’s doing, but he seems to be revelling in the opportunity. In fact, Little is a self-proclaimed introvert. After his talk you would quite likely find him seeking a few minutes of quiet refuge behind the locked door of a toilet cubicle. This is one of the “restorative niches” described in his 2014 book Me, Myself, and Us, which he uses to recover from the exhausting demands of acting extraverted.
Your Answer to this Question will Determine Your Success in Life. Your time on this beautiful planet is brief.

The more consciously awake you become, the more you realize how short life really is.
Lifehack. You’re sitting in your living room watching a new Tony Robbins motivational documentary about changing yourself.

By the end, you’re so excited about the prospect that you rush to the nearest Barnes & Noble book store. You comb the self-help section looking for the one book or audio book set that will change your life in five easy steps. Sound familiar? You may have read a book to cover and even accomplished some of the required steps, but it hasn’t delivered the immediate results you expected. The disappointment you feel makes you disregard the improvements you’ve achieved.

Lifehack. Even the best, most ambitious people find it hard to get things done sometimes.

Motivation doesn’t exactly greet us every morning or even make attempts to show up at the front door and ring the bell. Many days can be a struggle to reach goals and meet deadlines. Occasionally, the motivation just isn’t there and we let the “slumpiness” take over our usually powerful and productive selves.
Lifehack. A common piece of fitness advice is to “find comfort in discomfort.”

The basic premise is that you cannot move forward and grow without pushing yourself past the boundaries of your comfort zone and into new territory. You need to learn to recognize that being uncomfortable means positive change. This advice is beyond fitness enthusiasm: it is a mantra for achieving life success.

Our personal habits revolve around avoiding stress and discomfort at all costs.
What It Means To Be A Gentleman Today — Gentleman's Gazette. You hear it everywhere these days: the term “gent” or “gentleman” has become ubiquitous in men’s magazines, blogs, and conversations. Videos welcome “gentlemen” and everybody seems to use the word for a wide range of men. A reader recently took us to task by saying that anything other than the traditional definition of a gentleman is a disappointment.

How To Live a More Meaningful Life. Seven steps to a more meaningful life includes meditation, movement and maximisation. Top of the list for living a meaningful daily life is being more mindful, according to occupational therapist Dr. Melanie Austin-McCain. She says: “Be present, smile, humble yourself, and acknowledge others.With mindfulness, you’re really in the present and focusing on your senses and your experiences — what you are feeling, thinking, and doing.”
Bulletproof Mind: 6 Techniques for Mental Resilience from the Navy SEALs - Market Meditations.

Brandon Webb was not about to break. “Fuck you, Instructor Buchanan—fuck you. The only way you’re getting me out of here is in a body bag.”It was the middle of “Hell Week,” a full week of physical and mental torture that all trainees must endure in order to become a member of the Navy SEALs—the most elite special forces unit on the planet.

Webb had come in with far worse physical conditioning than everyone else. And he had a bit of an ego. Not a good sign.
The Myth of Scarcity: 12 Stupidly Easy Things That'll Set You Apart from the Pack. How to Treat a Jellyfish Sting. Theconversation. Ethics are increasingly a part of the school curriculum, and practical introductory classes in applied ethics are part of the training that nurses, scientists and soldiers undergo. Ethical education is ubiquitous, even though it may not always involve complicated theoretical debates – but should it include a dose of philosophy?
We don’t need no (moral) education? Five things you should learn about ethics. Amazon.com - Shalom Y'all Ceramic Door Sign - Decorative Plaques.

18-Year-Old Model Edits Her Instagram Posts To Reveal The Truth Behind The Photos. 18-year-old internet sensation Essena O’Neill had been making thousands of dollars modeling on Instagram and sharing her pictures with almost 580,000 followers, but all that changed last week.
Self-Defense Moves That Can Save Your Life. Sometimes, the world is a frightening place. Muggings, assaults and random acts of violence take place against innocent people every day — and we see them so often in the news that we become numb to their occurrence. Unfortunately, part of that numbness can fuel a total lack of preparedness should we become the victim. We all hope we won’t have to face a life-and-death situation at the hands of another person, but other than vigilance and staying away from places where trouble seems to occur, we have little control over the dangerous part of the outside world.
Killer cops, drone wars and the crisis of democracy. This will long be remembered as the week when another grand jury declined to prosecute another white police officer in the death of another unarmed African-American man, this time in the nation’s largest and most diverse city, a supposed bastion of liberalism.

Reviving Blue Collar Work: 4 Myths About the Skilled Trades. How to Create Habits That Stick (+Pavlok Giveaway)
5 Tools for Thriving in Uncertainty. Create More Joy in Your Life by Prioritizing Things You Enjoy Doing. Christopher Kimball’s brilliant cooking show, and Book Fight! talks copyright · Podmass. Podmass comments and suggestions for future coverage can be directed to podmass@avclub.com “I look like Jesus… if he went through a bad breakup eight months ago.

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John Boyd’s Roll Call: Do You Want to Be Someone or Do Something?
The Four Types of Friends According to the Buddha. Waking Times Young man, be aware of these four good-hearted friends: the helper, the friend who endures in good times and bad, the mentor, and the compassionate friend.
How Contemplation Changes Our Brains For The Better. Upon moving to Los Angeles two years ago last month, I was surprised by how few drivers use turn signals.
The 10 Smartest Things You Can Do Every Night. The Way of the Bodhisattva: Living in the World. The 3 Elements of Charisma: Warmth. Get Fit Like a Wild Man: A Primer on MovNat and Outdoor Training. You May Be Strong . . . But Are You Tough?
Could “braingasms” supplant meditation?
How A Scientist Tricks His Brain Into Solving Ultra-Complex Problems. The Secret to Breaking Out of Our Most Destructive Habits.

Fathering With Intentionality: The Importance of Creating a Family Culture. Changing The Creepy Guy Narrative — chrisbrecheen.blogspot.com.au. The Benefits of Minimalism – Simplicity and Freedom. How to Criticize (and Take Criticism)
How to Properly Praise Someone. How to Accept a Compliment With Class. Life Is Practiced Rather Than Perfected: Balance Is Good Enough. Resiliency. Are You a Sheep or Sheepdog? Part III: Your Roadmap to Becoming a Sheepdog. On Being Neighborly. The Outlook Ain’t Pretty – But Looking Up Is Great!
Are You a Sheep or Sheepdog? Part I. A Powerful Lesson in Self-Compassion: Are You Allergic to Honey?
The Way of the Bodhisattva: Living in the World. How to Be a Gentleman Behind the Wheel. 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy. Three Fun and Easy Things Science Says Will Make You Happier.

How to master your life - Leading a better life - Quora. The World Is a Kinder Place When You’re Kind. Manvotional: 4 Rules on How to Make the Most of Life. Lessons We Can Learn from Jiro Ono. We Have to Let Go of Who We Are to Discover Who We Can Become. Consciousness: The Urgent Importance of Our Willful Transformation — Gabriel D. Roberts. Here’s why mindfulness works.

Are You a Highly Sensitive Person?
Marry Yourself: Creating Sacred Vows for Self-Love. Dating guru Blake Eastman decodes body language. 21st Century Spirituality. 12 Tips to Create a Peaceful, Passionate Life. Dreams Without Nightmares, Hygeine for Our Souls. A more peaceful world awaits. Are You a Psychopath? Take the Test.
Logotherapy. Scientists Develop Highly Volatile New Relationship.